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Orwell and Paterno
Gary Alan Fine at the New York Times finds Penn State’s “vacating” of victories from the sports history of the school from 1998 to 2011 a move Orwell might...
Part of the Deal
As of yesterday, doctors in South Dakota must advise patients seeking abortions of the increased risk of suicidal thoughts and actions that come with it. Obviously contested, we’re told...
Therefore, It Is the Most Philosophical Town
The tiny township of Corigliano d’Otranto, a small village on Italy’s heel, believes itself to be the country’s most philosophical hamlet. It might have something to do with the...
Religion, the New Pornography
Writing for cityArts , Maureen Mullarkey reviews a new exhibition at the DC Moore Gallery, American (ir)religiosity : Censorship battles over sexually explicit imagery have been won. That old...
First Links – 7.12.12
Reparative Therapy Renounced Erik Eckholm, New York Times Even More About NFIB v. Sebelius Tom Christina, Library of Law & Liberty David Oderberg’s New Location Via Edward Feser, David...
First Links – 7.11.12
Herbert Hoover’s American Exceptionalism John Hendrickson, Library of Law and Liberty Same-Sex Marriage and the Revolt Against Metropolitan Jonah Fr. Johannes Jacobse, American Orthodox Institute What’s in a Name,...
First Links — 7.10.12
Chief Justice Roberts and the Changing Conservative Movement Joe Alicea, Public Discourse Does Quantum Physics Make It Easier to Believe in God? Stephen M. Barr, Big Questions Online Paint-by-Number...
Anna Williams, New Junior Fellow
First Things warmly welcomes a new Junior Fellow, Anna Williams, who flew in to New York City just yesterday evening. A brief bio: Anna Williams is a recent graduate...
First Links – 7.6.12
Sex Abuse and the Study of Religion Kathryn Lofton, Immanent Frame RJN and the HHS “Catholic Moment” C.J. McCloskey III, Catholic Thing “Only Liberty?” Patrick Brennen, Mirror of Justice...
First Links – 7.5.12
The Varieties of Nihilistic Experience, Part II Anthony Distefano, Catholic Phoenix Elusive God Particle: Found Steve O’Connor, Belfast Telegraph Romney’s Ceasefire on Obamacare? Bryon York, The Examiner The New...
First Links — 7.3.12
Fortnight for Freedom: Whose Religious Liberty? Jessica Coblentz, Religion & Politics Religion, Brain, and Behavior Michael Neilson, PsyRel A Reply to Steve Fuller Edward Feser, Edward Feser Swimming the...
Prodigal Son in F
Feeling footloose and frisky, a feather-brained fellow forced his fond father to fork over the family finances. He flew far to foreign fields and frittered his fortune feasting fabulously...
Dominicans for the Fortnight
Dominicana , the publication of the Dominican students of the St. Joseph Province, is supporting the Catholic bishops’ Fortnight for Freedom by providing free access to “Salt and Light:...
Thinking About Homosexuality
David Deavel, writing for Unique for a Reason , explores the difficulties that homosexuals who are interested in living celibate, orthodox Christian lives often meet with from within the...
China and Women’s Reproductive Rights
Some attention was given to China’s one-child policy with Vice President Joe Biden off-handedly expressed sympathy for it, but the moral horror the policy evokes in most has yet...
